Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, Dean of the Ohio Delegation, released the following statement regarding the U.S. Trade Representative's release of objectives for the pending renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) stood up today, as Ranking Member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water, to demand the Army Corps of Engineers release the Brandon Road Study.
The Amendment was bipartisan and is the exact same as Kaptur's Stop Asian Carp Now Act, which would require the Army Corps to release the report within seven days of enactment.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) and Congressman David Joyce (OH-14), both members of the House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee, today announced that the subcommittee has included their request for full funding of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) in its 2018 spending bill. This action is an important step to ensuring any final bill this year continues funding to the GLRI.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur joined 12 of her colleagues in a letter urging President Donald Trump to confront the Russian President on the following transgressions around the world including: Russia's violations of international law and of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine; Russia's support for the Assad regime in the brutal war in Syria; and Russia's cyber-attacks on the United States to influence its elections and systematically sow disinformation in the United States.
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), the Dean of the Ohio Congressional Delegation, spoke on the House floor about Vice President Mike Pence's visit to a Northeast Ohio manufacturing facility to discuss the flawed and harmful TrumpCare proposal. Kaptur was dressed in black to mark the GOP's efforts to slash Medicaid.
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Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) released the following statement after the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its analysis of the Senate's anti-life measure to repeal Obamacare:
"Why are Republicans in Congress wasting precious time scheming in secret about how to take away health security from our most vulnerable -- our sick, our children, our seniors, the disabled and the mentally ill?
Washington, D.C. – Rep. Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) and Rep. Steve Knight (CA-25), introduced legislation, H.R. 3033 the Aeronautics Innovation Act of 2017, which creates funding and programmatic stability for NASA to mature and demonstrate new aeronautics technology that will continue to secure the Nation's position as the world's leading air and economic power.
Washington, D.C. – The Co-Chairs of the House Great Lakes Task Force, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Congressman Bill Huizenga (MI-02), Congressman Sean Duffy (WI-07) and Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (NY-25) and Northeast-Midwest Congressional Coalition Co-Chairs, Congressman David P.
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Dean of the Ohio Delegation and the most senior woman serving in Congress, today released the following statement regarding the draft Senate health care bill:
"Health care is about life and death. Now that we have a draft bill from the Senate, we know that Medicaid coverage will be heavily cut back. These are lifeline cuts to vital care and services for our children, seniors, those suffering from opioid addiction as well as the disabled and mentally ill.